by Sarah Gooding | Sep 11, 2019 | block collections, gutenberg, News, Plugins, Wordpress Resources
With the proliferation of block collection plugins over the past year, Kioken Blocks is a relatively unknown newcomer that you may have missed. Compared to competitors with thousands of users like CoBlocks (30K+), Atomic Blocks (20K+), Stackable (10K+), and Ultimate...
by Sarah Gooding | May 31, 2019 | gutenberg, News, Plugins, Wordpress Resources
Automattic is working on a new experimental Full Site Editing plugin aimed at enhancing the page creation workflow in the block editor. Starting a new page from scratch may be overwhelming for those who don’t have a vision for how to tastefully put blocks...
by Sarah Gooding | Apr 10, 2019 | coblocks, godaddy, gutenberg, News, Plugins, ThemeBeans, Themes, Wordpress Resources
GoDaddy has acquired CoBlocks, ThemeBeans, Block Gallery and Block Unit Tests, one of the leading Gutenberg product lines in the WordPress ecosystem. Founder Rich Tabor is joining GoDaddy as Senior Product Manager of WordPress Experience and will lead a team dedicated...
by Sarah Gooding | Jan 10, 2019 | Elementor, gutenberg, News, page builders, Wordpress Resources
Elementor has acquired Layers WP, a WordPress site builder that was previously marketed as an all-in-one theme solution for getting a business online. Layers co-founders David and Marc Perel identified Gutenberg as the main reason for the sale in their farewell...
by Sarah Gooding | Dec 12, 2018 | gutenberg, News, state of the word, wordcamp us, wordpress, Wordpress Resources
photo credit: WP TavernWordCamp US kicked off in Nashville over the weekend, following the release of WordPress 5.0. In the first 48 hours, 5.0 had been downloaded more than 2.8 million times. It passed 3 million Saturday night. “There’s been a lot...
by Jeff Chandler | Dec 8, 2018 | bebo, gutenberg, wordpress, WordPress 5.0, Wordpress Resources
In 2016 at WordCamp US in Philadelphia, PA, Matt Mullenweg announced to the world that a new post and page editor would be coming to WordPress. “The editor does not represent the core of WordPress publishing,” Mullenweg said. His vision of the editor was...
